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Unlike later Buckethead solo albums, the Bill Laswell-produced Giant Robot contains many vocal contributions from guests such as Iggy Pop, Bill Moseley, Throatrake and Julian Schnabel's kids Stella and Vito. The album also features many high-profile instrumentalists such as Sly Dunbar, Bootsy Collins and Karl Berger.
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Like Bucketheadland, the album was released in Japan only on November 3, 1994. The original version had a comic inside the booklet.The album was later released on the U.S. by CyberOctave on September 18, 2000. CyberOctave was the label who Buckethead was affiliated with during that period. A japanese comic book telling the story of Buckethead defea...
The album once again revolves arround Buckethead's fictional amusement park, Bucketheadland a notion that can be established by hearing the track "Welcome to Bucketheadland" which is a reworked version of "Park Theme" from the previous album. Like in the previous album, Giant Robot is influenced by the 1960's japanese television series, Johnny Sakk...
"Doomride" - 0:57"Welcome to Bucketheadland" - 3:42"I Come in Peace" - 6:03"Buckethead's Toy Store" - 8:02Buckethead- main performerBill Laswell- main performerBootsy Collins- Bass (tracks: 3-5, 7, 8)Jerome Brailey - Drums (tracks: 2, 4, 8, 14, 15)Listen to Giant Robot by Buckethead on Apple Music. 1994. 19 Songs. Duration: 1 hour, 13 minutes.
The following year Pop contributed to Buckethead's album Giant Robot, including the songs "Buckethead's Toy Store" and "Post Office Buddy". He appears also on the Les Rita Mitsouko album Système D where he sings the duet "My Love is Bad" with Catherine Ringer .
Giant Robot features many guest appearances by artists such as Iggy Pop and Bill Moseley. The reason "Binge and Grab" is noted as being an "instrumental version" is because the song is originally a Deli Creeps song with lyrics.
"Giant Robot" marks the debut of Buckethead's disembodied musical stylings, inspired by his passion for Japanese monster and martial arts films, horror and avant-garde cinema, and features guitar heavy rock, hip-hop, electronic and twisted funk--all represented as only Buckethead can.
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Giant Robot, an Album by Buckethead. Released 3 November 1994 on Sony (catalog no. SRCS 7494; CD). Genres: Experimental Rock, Progressive Metal, Hard Rock. Rated #632 in the best albums of 1994.
